May Wine, - Or, - Uh-Hum, Kickapoo Joy Juice...

Here is my recipe for May Wine.  It requires fresh sweet woodruff, a low growing, delicate looking tiny 5 leaved plant with pretty little white flowers, which is a perennial herb that grows in the earliest part of the summer in Northeastern Ohio, where I live...

Sweet woodruff was known as a strewing herb, along with lemon balm and the mints.  Strewing was done in castles and other buildings in Medieval England.  It was done in an effort to keep evil smells away, - not always successfully.  Sweet woodruff does not smell sweet until it's dry. 

May Wine:  Gather sweet woodruff, at least a bunch of it the size of your fist.  Remove stems and crush the leaves and flowers.  Place them in a large [gallon] glass jar.  Add a half gallon of apple juice, 3 cups of strongest vodka, and 3 cups of sweet cherry wine.  Let it sit for a few days.  Strain out the sweet woodruff.  Enjoy!